A contribution towards a transfer of the ecosystem service concept to landscape planning using landscape metrics

The German Energiewende – History and status quo

Towards a green economy in Germany? The role of energy efficiency policies

Towards a sustainable innovation system for the German wood-based bioeconomy: Implications for policy design

Local and socio-political acceptance of wind farms in Germany

Public participation for infrastructure planning in the context of the German “Energiewende”

Although the goals of the country’s energy transition (Energiewende) are widely accepted in Germany, the specific route to get there is itself a matter of great controversy The individual measures that are part of the energy transition policy and the questions of how they interact and how they are embedded in the European context are objects of controversial scientific and public debate Most recently, the consequences for the price of electricity have, in particular, been discussed intensely Against this backdrop of wide-ranging criticism, the future course for promoting renewable energy will soon be set The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, EEG), which is the main instrument of energy transition policy with its feed-in tariffs, is supposed to be fundamentally revised in the course of this year A precondition for achieving a coherent further development of the energy transition policy and for receiving the sound support of a critical public is that the long-term consequences of political decisions on a complex sociotechnical energy system be taken into account The requirements of such a system are not satisfied by policy approaches or recommendations that target short-term effects or that are perceptions of problems extrapolated from individual sectors On the basis of its integrated research on the energy transition, researchers from the Helmholtz Alliance Energy-Trans take a stand on current important controversial issues from the energy transformation and specify fundamental challenges to shaping a sustainable energy transition policy

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The future of the energy transition in Germany

Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung bei Planungsvorhaben der Energiewende

Public Participation within the German Energiewende. Policies and Guidelines for Planning ProcessesDie Öffentlichkeit an der Energiewende beteiligen. Grundsätze und Leitlinien für Planungsvorhaben

Renewable energy projects, such as offshore and onshore wind and solar farms, including the necessary infrastructure, have an impact on biodiversity. Given the status of biodiversity across Europe, and the ambitions for the maintenance of species, limiting the impact of renewable energy generation units on biodiversity is of fundamental importance. This study offers an insight into the incorporation of species protection aspects in current permit practices, and contributes to the discussion on dealing with species protection issues in the process of upscaling sustainable energy facilities.

Renewable energy projects and species protection. A comparison into the application of the EU species protection regulation with respect to renewable energy projects in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark and Germany

Wolfgang Köck

Papers

Public participation for infrastructure planning in the context of the German “Energiewende”

The future of the energy transition in Germany

Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung bei Planungsvorhaben der Energiewende

Public Participation within the German Energiewende. Policies and Guidelines for Planning ProcessesDie Öffentlichkeit an der Energiewende beteiligen. Grundsätze und Leitlinien für Planungsvorhaben

Renewable energy projects and species protection. A comparison into the application of the EU species protection regulation with respect to renewable energy projects in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark and Germany